Photo: Garbanzo972 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Donat builds fast: 61.3 new homes a year per 1,000, against 15.1 for Quebec’s towns
Owners valued the median home at $320,000 at the 2021 census, and the average at $389,200. Sale prices aren’t published in Quebec: what owners told the census is the figure to go on for Saint-Donat. Québec’s 2026 property roll puts single-family homes at a median $569,700, at market values of July 1, 2024.
Two ways to price a home in Saint-Donat
Each source sits beside its own median for Quebec’s towns; none compares across provinces, which value homes in their own ways. What owners reported in May 2021 is an opinion of value; interest rates and prices have both moved since.
median, owners’ estimate
- Average
- $389K
- Owners
- 1,825
- Quebec’s towns
- $300K
- The typical Canadian town
- $406K
single-family, market at July 1, 2024
- Quebec’s towns
- $353K
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada); Canadian Housing Statistics Program, tables 46-10-0099 and 46-10-0093; Québec rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH).
In Saint-Donat, semi-detached and row houses are on the roll at a median $646,750, 102% above Quebec’s towns
By kind of building, Saint-Donat’s dwellings on the roll split 75% in single-family houses, 11% in plexes, 3% in buildings of six units or more and 2% in condos. It lists 305 chalets as well, at $297,900 in the middle.
Median roll value by kind, 2026 the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Dwellings by kind of building
Rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026 (MAMH): a kind’s median needs 10 units or more; plexes are valued per building; each municipality’s roll has its own market date. The ticks are the median of Québec’s municipalities with their own roll.
How Saint-Donat’s homes break down, by age and kind
Of the 2,435 homes people lived in across Saint-Donat at the 2021 census, 83% were single-detached houses. At least half predate 2001.
Homes by period of construction the tick is the median of Quebec’s towns
Homes by kind
| Saint-Donat | Quebec | Canada | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condominiums | 6% | 8% | 8% |
| Needing major repairs | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Too small for the household | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Households in core housing need | 3% | 3% | 7% |
Census 2021 (Statistics Canada): occupied private dwellings; core housing need as Statistics Canada defines it. Ticks and columns are medians of the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more.
Saint-Donat’s busiest year for permits was 2020, with 269 new homes
Over 2018–2023, 844 homes were permitted in Saint-Donat, close to 141 each year. Most were houses: 60% went into single-unit buildings, against 39% for Quebec’s towns.
New homes a year per 1,000 homes
Statistics Canada, tables 46-10-0087 (building permits by census subdivision, 2018–2023: dwelling units created, new construction and conversions) and 34-10-0292 (monthly, metro areas). Per 1,000: units a year over 2019–2023 against occupied homes in 2021.
Saint-Donat sits close to the $300,000 median of Quebec’s towns
The census values of Quebec’s towns, 510 of them with 2,500+ people, from dearest to cheapest.
Census 2021, owners’ estimates; towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, no city as a whole, no reserve.
Cheaper next to Saint-Donat: Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci, Lac-Supérieur and Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides
Next to Saint-Donat: 2021 census values and the share of owners. Saint-Donat has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 10–29 km out.
| Town | Median home value | Average | Owners | km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Donat | $320K | $389K | 75% | |
| Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci | $250K | $362K | 91% | 10.2 |
| Lac-Supérieur | $290K | $347K | 87% | 23.5 |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides | $250K | $258K | 84% | 24.4 |
| Entrelacs | $300K | $350K | 86% | 28.3 |
| Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré | $276K | $312K | 74% | 29 |
Census 2021 values; km.
Questions about property prices in Saint-Donat
How many households in Saint-Donat are in core housing need?
In Saint-Donat, 3% of households are in core housing need, close to the 3% of Quebec’s towns: those whose home costs too much, is too small or needs major repairs, with nothing suitable nearby under 30% of their income.
Is Saint-Donat expensive for Quebec?
Neither more nor less: Quebec’s towns have a median of $300,000, and Saint-Donat is near it.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · Statistics Canada, building permits (tables 46-10-0087 and 34-10-0292) · Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation, rôle d’évaluation foncière 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).